A Stitch in Time is a great story with a unique premise. I never did understand the protagonist's motivation regarding the girl and the college, but that didn't take away from my enjoyment of the story.

The story Rewind is incomplete and inactive and I believe the author made a blog post some years back to the effect that due to the death of his brother it would probably not be finished for a long time, if ever.

If you are referring to the story by Marsh Alien, the girl was the one he was falling in love with (First Love) before time jumped on him. He then found out he had been a perfect ass to her and everyone else, and was fixated on atoning for that and winning back the girl he still love.

As far as the college goes, I believe it had some family significance.

Now you are going to make me reread the story to find out what that family significance was.

Rewind is finished as far as the main story line goes. Classic do over setup where fat useless loser who started with great potential gets to try again. In this case he is able to face the emotional and behavioral problems that started him on the path of loserdom. SO the story is complete and quite readable as is.

Unfortunately, Frank... er.. Don Lockwood tried to spin the plot in a new direction in the last couple of chapters and then lost interest in writing. So if you want an excellent stab at the do-over genre AND the author's high point as a writer, give Rewind a read. Just be ready for a disjointed end that whimpers through what should be a great end point just a bit back.

I'll never argue that DoAL is not a great story. It stands tall as not only one of his best but one of the best on the site.

Still, it's not particularly good writing. There is plenty of fat on that story (as often happens with very long stories especially when you solicit sub plot ideas from readers). THere are also several dialog problems...

Still and all, it's one of the best stories, if you get my difference.